From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T07:25:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Epoch

errr..7 hour difference, just to correct myself, but got it ! Thanks.

On 7/4/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Dark Ambient wrote:
>
> > I'm under the impression at Epoch is January 1, 1970 00:00:00
> > yet in irb I do Time.at(0) and it returns:
> > => Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 Mountain Standard Time 1969
> >
> > Is the five hour difference MST -> GMT ?
> >
> > TIA
> > Stuart
>
> yup.
>
>
>    mussel:~ > ruby -e'  p  Time.at(0).utc  '
>    Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 1970
>
>
> -a
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